Bidspirit auction | HEINZ GUDERIAN AND ADOLF STRAUSS

HEINZ GUDERIAN AND ADOLF STRAUSS - HEINZ GUDERIAN (1888-1953) German general and Hitler's Army Chief of Staff, the inventor of the 'blitzkrieg' who commanded panzers in the Poland and France, and in the Russian campaign. ADOLF STRAUSS (1879-1973) Wehrmacht General, commander of the II Army Corps during the German Invasion of Poland, later appointed commander of the 9th Army in France, then participated in Operation Barbarossa with Army Group Centre. Recipient of the Knights Cross. Excellent first-edition copy of Heinrich Hoffmann's 'Mit Hitler im Westen' ('With Hitler in the West') (Zeitgeschichte-Verlag: Berlin), 1940. 130pp. 4to. in red cloth boards with silver titles. Guderian signs in black ink on an image of him in uniform, found in one of the central pages. Strauss boldly signs on an image of him meeting Adolf Hitler, found on a later page, adding rank and the date '7.3.[19]64.' Very good.